War and Peace (Annotated with Biography and Critical Essay)

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War and Peace begins with a scene at a party in St. Petersburg in 1805. It is the Napoleonic era a the French general has conquered much of Western Europe and Russia is nervous. Russia is allied with the Austrian Empire which is resisting Napoleonas forces along its borders. At the party the reader is introduced to the main characters including Pierre Bezukhov and Andrew Bolkonski and members of two families: Vasili, Anatole, and Helene Kuragin and Natasha, Sonya, and Nicholas Rostov. The plot is driven by the actions of the families a Andrew and Pierre join the Russian army at the Austrian Front, Nicholas almost gambles his familyas fortune away, and when Pierre returns home, he almost kills his wifeas lover. Andrew, missing in action on the Austrian Front, eventually returns home to find his wife has just died in childbirth. This annotated edition includes a biography and critical essay.But the most amazing example of the ineffectiveness oftheorders given
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War and Peace (Annotated with Biography and Critical Essay)

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Leo Tolstoy

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Golgotha Press - 2013-11-21

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